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Copyright 188S. 

Hard & Parsons, 

New York. 




ISLETS, daintily robed in blue, 
(pipped witb a jewel of the dew, 

W if b face as t^e aentie momma fair, 

Olnd breat^ of fraarance wondrous rare, 

Q)o beep sweet tryst wit b me to-oay. 
nave stolen from tbeir noob away. 



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0WN in a mossy covered dell, 
@weet and soy, my violets dwell, 

But tlie blue-bird l^nows +l?eir coy retreat 
@nd comes witb earliest sona to greet; 

@nd i\)e fervor of tr;e matin lay 
^brills \)\s music all tbe day. 



HB sunbeams strayina one by one, 

Qre yet toe dav s worr^ is begun, 
softly part the mossy screen 

ucl? drapes ir>e downy bed of aneen, 



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isses warm each dreamer wabes 



nd memory cj lad tl^eir journey mab 



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UT my violets bave a areaten bli 



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(§)ban tbe sunbeam s warm awal^enina biss 
(f ban tbe blue-bird s tbnllina notes above, 
Por tbey come to tbee in tender love, 

Wn emblem of fidelity, 

(^)o tell my ever loyalty. 

Annie C. McQueen. 



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